____Education_____________________________
Ph.D., Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia & University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1994
B.Sc.(Hons), Microbiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1989

____Experience____________________________
2007 - present: Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
2007 - present: Adjunct Associate Investigator, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
2003 - 2007: Associate Investigator, The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD, USA
2000 - 2003: Assistant Investigator, The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD, USA
2000 - 2007: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biology, Baltimore, USA
1998 - 1999: Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
1997 - 1998: C.J. Martin Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney,Sydney, Australia
1995 - 1997: C.J. Martin Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

____Honors/Awards/Societies_______________________________
2007 - present: Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
2007 - present: Editorial Board, Journal of Microbial Ecology
2007 - present: ISI Highly Cited Author
2001 - 2004: Member, Faculty of 1000
1995 - 1999:C.J. Martin Fellowship; National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
1990 - 1994:Sir Ernest Fields Memorial Scholarship

____Selected Publications (Out of a total of 130+ papers)___________________
1. Myers, G. S, Parker, D., Al-Hasani, K., Kennan, R. M., Seemann, T., Ren, Q., Badger, J. H., Selengut, J. D., Deboy, R. T., Tettelin, H., Boyce, J. D., McCarl, V. P., Han, X., Nelson, W. C., Madupu, R., Mohamoud, Y., Holley, T., Fedorova, N., Khouri, H., Bottomley, S. P., Whittington, R. J., Adler, B., Songer, J. G., Rood, J. I, and Paulsen, I. T. (2007) Genome sequence and identification of candidate vaccine antigens from the animal pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus. Nature Biotechnology 25:569-575.
2. Ren, Q., Chen, K., and Paulsen, I. T. (2007) TransportDB: a comprehensive database resource for cytoplasmic membrane transport systems and outer membrane channels. Nucleic Acids Research 35: D274-279.
3. Palenik, B., Ren, Q., Dupont, C. L., Myers, G. S., Heidelberg, J. F., Badger, J. H., Madupu, R., Nelson, W. C., Brinkac, L. M., Dodson, R. J., Durkin, A. S., Daugherty, S. C., Sullivan, S. A., Khouri, H., Mahamoud, Y., Halpin, R., and Paulsen, I. T. (2006) Genome sequence of Synechococcus CC9311: Insights into adaptation to a coastal environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 13555-13559.
4. Myers, G. S. A, Rasko, D. A., Cheung, J., Ravel, J., Seshadri, R., DeBoy, R., Varga, J., Awad, M., Brinkac, L., Daugherty, S., Dodson, B., Madupu, R., Nelson, W., Rosovitz, M. J., Sullivan, S., Khouri, H., Dimitrov, G., Watkins, K., Mulligan, S., Benton, J., Fisher, D. J., Atkins, H. S., Hiscox, T., Jost, H., Billington, S., Songer, J. G., McClane, B. A., Titball, R. W., Rood, J. I., Melville, S., and Paulsen, I. T. (2006) Skewed distribution of genomic variability in strains of the toxigenic bacterial pathogen, Clostridium perfringens. Genome Research 16: 1031-1040.
5. Ding, X. Z., Paulsen, I. T., Bhattacharjee, A., Nikolich, M. P., Myers, G. and Hoover, D. L. (2006) A high efficiency cloning and expression system for proteomic analysis. Proteomics 6: 4038-4044.
6. Keseler, I. M., Collado-Vides, J., Gama-Castro, S., Ingraham, J., Paley, S., Paulsen, I. T., Peralta-Gil, M., and Karp, P. D. (2005) EcoCyc: a comprehensive database resource for Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research 33: D334-337.
7. Paulsen, I. T., Press, C., Ravel, J., Kobayashi, D.Y., Myers, G.S.A., Mavrodi, D.V., DeBoy, R.T., Seshadri, R., Ren, Q., Madupu, R., Dodson, R.J., Durkin, A.S., Brinkac, L.M., Daugherty, S.C., Sullivan, S.A., Rosovitz, M.J., Gwinn, M.L., Zhou, L., Nelson, W.C., Weidman, J., Watkins, K., Tran, K., Khouri, H., Pierson, E.A., Pierson, L.S., III, Thomashow, L.S., and Loper, J.E. (2005) Complete genome sequence of the plant commensal Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5: insights into the biological control of plant disease. Nature Biotechnology 23: 873-878.
8. Ren, Q. and Paulsen, I. T. (2005) Comparative Analyses of Fundamental Differences in Membrane Transport Capabilities in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes. PLOS Computational Biology 1: 190-201
9. Ren, Q., Kang, K., and Paulsen, I. T. TransportDB: a relational database of cellular membrane transport systems (2004) Nucleic Acids Research 32: 284-288.
10. Seshadri, R., Myers, G. S., Tettelin. H., Eisen, J. A., Heidelberg, J. F., Dodson, R. J., Davidsen, T. M., DeBoy, R. T., Fouts, D. E., Haft, D. H., Selengut, J., Ren, Q., Brinkac, L. M., Madupu, R., Kolonay, J., Durkin, S. A., Daugherty, S. C., Shetty, J., Shvartsbeyn, A., Gebregeorgis, E., Geer, K., Tsegaye, G., Malek, J., Ayodeji, B., Shatsman, S., McLeod, M. P., Smajs, D., Howell, J. K., Pal, S., Amin, A., Vashisth, P., McNeill, T. Z., Xiang, Q., Sodergren, E., Baca, E., Weinstock, G. M., Norris, S. J., Fraser, C. M., and Paulsen, I. T. (2004) Comparison of the genome of the oral pathogen Treponema denticola with other spirochete genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101: 5646-5651.
11. Venter, J. C., Remington, K., Heidelberg, J. F., Halpern, A. L., Rusch, D., Eisen, J. A., Wu, D., Paulsen, I., Nelson, K. E., Nelson, W., Fouts, D. E., Levy, S., Knap, A. H., Lomas, M. W., Nealson, K., White, O., Peterson, J., Hoffman, J., Parsons, R., Baden-Tillson, H., Pfannkoch, C., Rogers, Y. H., and Smith, H. O. (2004). Environmental genome shotgun sequencing of the Sargasso Sea. Science 304: 66-74.
12. Paulsen, I. T., Banerjei, L., Myers, G. S., Nelson, K. E., Seshadri, R., Read, T. D., Fouts, D. E., Eisen, J. A., Gill, S. R., Heidelberg, J. F., Tettelin, H., Dodson, R. J., Umayam, L., Brinkac, L., Beanan, M., Daugherty, S., DeBoy, R. T., Durkin, S., Kolonay, J., Madupu, R., Nelson, W., Vamathevan, J., Tran, B., Upton, J., Hansen, T., Shetty, J., Khouri, H., Utterback, T., Radune, D., Ketchum, K. A., Dougherty, B. A., and Fraser, C. M. Role of mobile DNA in the evolution of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis. (2003) Science 299: 2071-2074.
13. Paulsen, I. T. (2003) Multidrug efflux pumps and resistance: regulation and evolution. Current Opinion in Microbiology 6: 446-451.

____Web Sites___________________
TransportDB: A database of genomic analysis of transporters in all sequenced genomes which my group developed and maintains.
EcoCyc: A comprehensive database of E. coli genes and biology, on which I have been a long term collaborator with Peter Karp at SRI International.

____Public Outreach___________________
I have participated in a variety of public outreach activities to foster integration of research and education, and to make scientific research more accessible to the general public:

____Press Releases and News Articles___________________